“I hate knowing that this feeling of hiding so much isn’t normal. I hate feeling like I’ll cause problems if I don’t. I hate the way it seems so much like I’m lying with every part of myself to the people I care most about in this entire world. I don’t want to disappoint them. I don’t want to blame them. I don’t…want to have to be the person I need to be outside in front of them anymore.” “But it’s uncomfortable to think about how they might react to more genuine pieces of you as though they are the foreign ones?”

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